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With the mounting online security risks, simple one-step security no longer suffices, and people resort to multiple layers of security to thwart increasingly sophisticated attacks on their digital assets and online privacy. An advanced form of security defense often employed in financial sectors and other corporate environments is hardware-based protection, where a tamper-proof physical security […]Continue reading...

Jigish Gohil had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 42.1 operating system targeted at schools and educational institutions.

This video shows you the way to remove old obsolete kernels from your Ubuntu installation.

Compulab launched its fastest Fitlet mini-PC yet with a quad-core, 2.4GHz AMD G-Series “Fitlet-T,” plus two Intense PC mini-PCs using Intel’s 5th Gen Cores. Compulab added to two of its Linux-ready mini-PC families with a Fitlet-T starting at $386, and two new Intense PC (IPC) models starting at $638.

One of the great aspects of open source is that there’s always something new to learn. Many of us like to jump right in with new software or technology and learn by trial and error. Sometimes, however, we can use a guiding hand. That hand comes in the form of a good how-to or manual.

Canonical's Kevin DuBois announced the release of the Mir 0.18 display server for the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

From next year, websites with new SHA-1 certificates will not be supported by Google Chrome in the interest of security.

Linux vendor SUSE is out today with the first service pack update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. The big new addition is full support for Docker container though a number of different technologies.

The Steam Controller was launched a while back, and the world didn't stop spinning. The problem is that it should have. If players give it enough time, they will be impressed and soon realize that Microsoft, Sony, and all the others have been lying to them for a long time.

2015 was an extremely good year for open source. Enterprise customers embraced open source at an unprecedented rate. Arch rivals came together to work on shared technologies. Even Microsoft and Apple released their software as open source.

GNOME Keyring is a daemon program which caches user's secret keys, login credentials and certificates, and makes them available to other applications requesting them according to the GnuPG protocol. Essentially GNOME Keyring plays the same role as gpg-agent, but is active only within GUI desktop sessions. GNOME Keyring also implements SSH agent protocol for SSH authentication to replace ssh-agent.

In today's open source roundup: Maximalist distro Ultimate Edition 4.2.3 LTS has been released for Christmas. Plus: Are you an Android or iPhone person? And the fight for Free Software continues.

LibreOffice is one of the most important pieces of free software, allowing many of us to work, study, and share information. Although the software features many tools and capabilities, the spectrum of possible uses for each and everyone out there is so wide, that it is simply impossible to cover every special need with hotkeys and shortcuts. However, LibreOffice can be set to support user-created commands that can essentially help us increase our productivity.

Wearable electronics have exploded in the past year. Countless small devices are now on the market for not only fitness tracking, but posture improvement, sunscreen reminders, muscle-sensing gesture control, and much more. As technology on the body becomes more pervasive than ever, having open source tools for developing wearable technology is more important than ever, so that we can create the future of fashion tech while maintaining data privacy of biometric sensor data.

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Ubuntu Touch is still considered a young platform, so there aren't many native applications available for it. The guys from the unofficial app store for Ubuntu, the uApp Explorer, have put together a list of desired applications for this mobile operating system, and there are at least a few surprises among them.

This month marks a milestone for me. It's been five years since I started working in—and learning from—an open organization. read more

We've just been informed by Martin Wimpress, the main developer and leader of Ubuntu MATE, about the general availability of a spin off project from Ubuntu MATE, called Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker.

Every release the Fedora Design team collaborates with the Fedora community to release a set of 16 additional backgrounds to install and use on Fedora. The Fedora Design team takes submissions from the wider Fedora Community, then votes on the... Continue Reading →

Let's get this put to bed now: At the grade school level, girls are far and away better at most technological challenges than are boys. I've seen it for years; I've lived it for years. Where is the failure? It resides in the adults in a girl's life who tell her she shouldn't be wasting her time with computers and that she should start wearing skirts and dresses instead of jeans and that damned three button pullover shirt. Some will go so far as to point out the lack of female presence in the technology workplace as proof. Well yeah...there is a smaller female representation. That's because mommy and school career counselors are channeling her into roles "more suited to her gender" and their preconceived ideas of her abilities.

The developers behind the GnuCash Project were happy to announce this past weekend the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release in the GnuCash 2.6 series.